With Series On The Line, India Ready To Go For The Jugular
The Hindu|December 22, 2019
West Indies has the firepower to make a match of it as seen in recent outings
Y.B. Sarangi
With Series On The Line, India Ready To Go For The Jugular

India’s resilience, evident from its confident fightbacks in the T20I series against Bangladesh and the West Indies, will hold it in good stead in the third and final One-Day International against the Caribbeans at the Barabati Stadium here on Sunday.

With the series evenly poised at 1-1, the decider may turn Barabati into a pressure cooker.

Having ‘been there, done that’, the Indians know their job well.

High-stakes players “Even the last match was a do-or-die (affair) for us with the series on the line. We will play with a similar mindset. When the stakes are high, I feel all the players pull up the socks, put up their hands,” said middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer, designated to speak for the team here on Saturday.

Nearly the whole squad — barring Rohit Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Shami and K.L. Rahul — turning up for an optional practice session on Saturday spoke of the hosts’ intent.

The dew factor comes into play here as early as 5 p.m., the Indians are ready for the challenge, though.

This story is from the December 22, 2019 edition of The Hindu.

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